Butterflies

This week, I had to make a birthday card for a friend who loves nature, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to use the Fairy Tale Butterflies digital freebie that I downloaded last month over at Create with TLC.

I created a square in Word and used one of the colour filling options (bit map pattern called "Briefpapier" in Dutch, so it's probably called sth. like "Writing paper" in English) to create the basis for my background. I placed the green butterfly on top and sent it to the printer. I printed the same butterfly again and cut it out, so I could mask my first green butterfly before stamping the background florals/swirls with a Viva decor cling stamp and Antique linen distress ink (Ranger's). I then cut out my square to size and rubbed the edges with more Antique linen and some Dried marigold. I printed the orange butterfly and attached it with a few foam pads for dimension. The sentiment is from a sentiment set from Ladybugs Crafts Ink. I cut it out with a Spellbinders tag die and applied some distress ink. The CS, gems and ribbon are from my stash.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments - #49 Happy Birthday

Do You Stack Up - #61 Things with wings

Ooh La La - Photo inspiration (orange and green)

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Charisma Cardz - #8 Masking (+ optional: use 3 stamps)

Allsorts - #144 Spread your wings

OSAAT - #102 Use digi + Spring

Paperplay - #9 Sth. new, sth. old (new digi, old everything else)